New article out by Jennifer Nelson and Steven Wuhs on the debate in Mexico 1990-2008 on abortion. It argues that pro-life advocates appropriated human rights arguments ('strategic secularism') to assert protections for the ‘unborn’. #Skystorians 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article by Gil Engelstein & @irisrach.bsky.social, 'From the Fields Into the Bars', on Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977). It analyses the circumstances enabling its publication & why Spotheim was unsuccessful in advocating for trans women. 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article out by Meghmala Bhattacharya, exploring the masculinist framing of the female student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta in February 1928: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Skystorians

Glad to see my article about race and censuses in 19th-c Buenos Aires published by @socscihistory.bsky.social. I see it as demographic evidence of structural racism, but it contradicts the widespread view of underenumeration doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Congratulations to historian Diana Paton (@dianapaton.bsky.social), member of our advisory board, who is leading a major Project to map enslaved people’s testimony at the University of Edinburgh. Check also the postdoc fellowship opportunity #slaveryarchive www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Pre-order Marlene Daut's FIRST AND LAST KING OF HAITI!!! Out January 2025!! Check out the US and UK covers!! 🤩 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673225...

If you enjoy hiking, discovery, nature and Scotland, you'll love my new book #SkyeLine Backpacking the Original Skye Trail (Five⭐!) "Brilliant Book" "Enjoyable and informative" "Brings Skye to life" "From the poetic to the practical" "Poignancy and humour" www.amazon.co.uk/Skye-Line-Ba...

Just saw Mother, Country (el país de mi madre) @starandshadow.bsky.social alboradafilms.net/films/origin... A powerful documentary about Chilean exiles, family, friendship, and keeping on keeping on in tough times. The central interviewee, Cristina Godoy Navarrete, is extraordinary. I recommend.

Looking forward to this!

Permanent job in nineteenth-century US history at the University of Edinburgh. Closing date for applications: Nov. 29! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...